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This week on the show: Ubuntu’s “Buttongate”, will Novell be asset stripped?, Mozilla is updating the MPL, Microsoft loosing a patent case again, Simon Phipps new OSI director and much more as always…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:02:06 | Introduction

• Errata: Fab meant Gordon Freeman last episode, not Morgan
• SFLC blog post by James Vasile on the new US export restrictions
• One-click install of StatusNet on DreamHost — pretty cool!
• Also check out this interview: Evan Prodromou speaks on the future of StatusNet
• Our interview with Evan back in Episode 52
• Check out ideas.oggcamp.org and participate!
• OggCamp Sponsors: Linux Format (Media Partner), The Open Learning Centre, Linux Emporium, Opsview and Bitfolk
• Linux Mint lost a big pillar of the community: RIP Mats Geier aka. “Husse”
• Booze of the Week: Leftover Burgundy

0:18:59 | Releases & News

• Distro: VortexBox 1.2
• Distro: Fedora 13 Alpha (Development Release)
• PyPy 1.2

• Will Novell be asset stripped?
• Jonathan Schwartz blogs about Apple and Microsoft intimidating Sun in the past — Steve Jobs basically admits to stealing ideas all the time
• Mozilla is updating the MPL
• Buttongate: There is trouble in Ubuntuland about them moving the window controls in the new themes — Mark Shuttleworth comments on the bug report

• Simon Phipps (@webmink) elected as new director of the OSI

0:53:59 | Microwatch

• Microsoft loses appeal in Word patent case — unfortunately it’s not totally over for them, though
• M$ set to launch beta of Silverlight for Symbian — huh!?

0:57:58 | Spotlight aka. “Jub-Jub”

• boot.fedoraproject.org — pretty cool way to install new versions of Fedora, might come in handy soon when F13 is released

1:02:26 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Jeff Boschee, Bruno Bigras, Brian Murray and Remy van Elst!
• Forums: Convincing People About Linux / Which Distro Are You Running (Spring 2010 Edition)

• Steve Smethurst writes in response to the recent email from our Mexican missionary
• Steve Anderson sent us this rather amusing link to a supposed live webcam at the LHC
• Matija complains bitterly that Fab ruined their Olympic hockey experience
• Mark Gardner sends Fab a great link to this video of Jeremy Clarkson barrel-rolling a Twingo in the Belfast sewer tunnels
• The new Renault Wind
• We had other emails this week from Alistair Munro, Ebcdic Zehetbauer, Carlos Lange, roachy, Kam Salisbury, t0p, John D. L. Platt, DarthSydwayZ, Tony Ciak, Jonathan Nadeau, Bob Krausen (who tells us about the impending new PCLinuxOS 2010 and says that Texstar and the Ripper Gang are back in the saddle)

• The photo of a member of the Ripper Gang, which we talked about, was from Episode 82
• Events: Please buy Rathole Roadshow gig tickets in advance if you want to come on April 30 (in Liverpool) / EuroPython 2010, July 19 - 24 in Birmingham, UK / Texas Linux Fest, April 10 in Austin, Texas (speakers include Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, Randal L. Schwartz, Jon “Maddog” Hall, Amber Graner, Bradley Kuhn and Max Spevack)

Song: All Control by Professor Kliq from his new EP Movements

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 28 minutes 24 seconds, 43.5 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws: Ubuntu redesign, Novell for sale?, US eases sanctions, Chris DiBona on Android and the kernel, Fab smokes a pipe and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:11 | Introduction

• Errata: Trier is in the south-west of Germany and Fab is an idiot
• MeeGo repository going public later this month, coming to the N900
• Check out Pet Status, microblogging for pets
• Follow Dr. Bunsen (the Crunchbang build bot) on identi.ca
• Gowalla 1.0 out and in the Market
• The Fedora 13 release slogan will be “Rock It”
• Portal 2!!!
• Beer of the Week: Gauloise Brune

0:11:53 | Releases & News

• Distro: Tiny Core Linux 2.9
• Distro: Elive 2.0
• Distro: NuTyX 2009.3
• Distro: Frugalware Linux 1.2
• StatusNet 0.9.0
• OpenSSH 5.4
• Apache 2.2.15
• Mercurial 1.5
• Linus Torvalds’ talk on git at Google

• Ubuntu Rebranding — Richard Querin on the issue
• Novell up for grabs?
• US eases sanctions on the web
• OMB becomes OStatus
• Linux Nvidia drivers might have GPU fan speed issue
• Chris DiBona says Google wants to cooperate upstream for Android kernel
• Linus calls out Noveau devs for breaking userspace with their latest updates

0:53:36 | Spotlight

• pino, a very cool and slimline microblogging client (Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch packages on the site)

0:59:31 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Ryan Kohler and George De Bruin for their donations!
• Forums: OggCamp… what’s it all about?

• lostnbronx send us disturbing news about Microsoft designing the new electronic ID card system for Germany
• Tim says it’s ironic that Apple is banning sex from the app store when many of their users clearly have a boner for Apple gear
• Jacob Feltman asks if we’ve tried tiling window managers and if so which ones we recommend
• Bill Hixon sends us information about Global Mojo
• We had other emails this week from Philip-III, Jo Klaps, Joona Lehtomäki, Steve Romanow, Manu Chandrasekhar, David McInnis, Pelesz, Ian Pickworth, Bradley M. Alexander and Tim Teatro

• Events: Get your Rathole Roadshow gig tickets for April 30! / March 31 is Document Freedom Day / Libre Planet 2010 is March 19 - 21

Song: Kill Dash Nine by Monzy — nerdcore biatch!

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 34 minutes 23 seconds, 46.3 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on Linux Outlaws: Amazon signs a patent deal with Microsoft, German data retention law unconstitutional, Microsoft can’t code, the Task Pooper and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:22 | Introduction

• Congratulations to Canada on winning olympic gold in hockey!
• You can now file bugs against Linux Outlaws on Launchpad
• PSN dies because of leap year bug — FAIL!
• Check out the Full Circle Podcast — Popey likes ‘em
• Security: Vulnerabilities in sudo patched
• Come to OggCamp 10!
• Beer of the Week: Faxe 1l can

0:14:04 | Releases & News

• Kernel 2.6.33
• Distro: SystemRescueCd 1.4.0
• Distro: Linux From Scratch 6.6
• We also talked about remote subscriptions with StatusNet
• Distro: Archbang
• BSD: PC-BSD 8.0
• Sylpheed 3.0
• Gnome Shell 2.29.0
• Darcs 2.4

• Good news from Germany: data retention law is against the constitution
• BBC changes iPlayer, breaks free software implementations
• StatusNet launches enterprise support
• Linux finally breaks even for Novell
• Facebook patents “the feed” — huh!?
• WTF!? “Task Pooper” could revolutionize GNOME desktop — or not…

0:49:40 | Microwatch

• Amazon signs patent deal with Microsoft over Linux and breaks Fab’s heart…
• Microsoft takes down whistleblower site
• Microsoft randomness FAIL in browser ballot
• Apple sues HTC — are they going after Android?

1:04:09 | Spotlight

• Emerillon, an OSM viewer for Gnome
• Gnaughty, an automatic porn fetcher for Gnome

1:08:31 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Paul Corbett, Andre Hugo and Mark Gardner
• Forums: Taking photos at OggCamp

• Bernd Schlapsi sends an email about his experience with buying music from 7digital in Austria
• Alison Chaiken sends us this great Nerdcore song: kill -9
• Julian Aloofi sends us a link about Oracle allegedly scrapping support for free versions of Solaris
• Ezequiel Bruni is a missionary in Mexico and is trying to get his fellow Christian missionaries to use Linux
• Karlis (aka. skazhy) says Fedora is restricted by US sanctions too which sucks
• Patrick Archibald has set up oggcasts.com which aggregates Ogg feeds and show related business via identi.ca
• Other emails this week from Rob Munro, Mac, B1ackcr0w, Bing, Raphael Ong, Cult, DarthSydwayZ, Tony Ciak, Adam Meltzer, Mathew Stahl, Jason Bowles, Ravel Lopez, Dylan Thiedeke (who pisses in out pockets again… we’d only just dried them out), Sergei Van Hardeveld, Joe Ressington, Reine and Paul Adams

• Event: muscaLUG meeting at the Musser Public Library on March 20

Song: Mr President by Afreekanxpress from the album Remember Senegal

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 42 minutes 11 seconds, 20.2 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In this special episode, Dan and Fab interview former OpenSuse community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier about leaving Novell, his plans for the future, more general Linux topics and totally unrelated stuff as well.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

Interview: Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier

We interview former OpenSuse community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier about him quitting his job at Novell, his plans for the future and a lot of other general Linux topics. We talk about the role of a community manager and the responsibilities and perks involved, what else Zonker did while at Novell, the past and future direction of Suse and its community, SLED and Zonker’s views on journalism and being a writer.

Zonker is @jzb on identi.ca, if you want to follow his journalistic exploits in the future. Also check out his podcast OpenMic with Zonker on Network World.

Song: Hold On To Your Structure from the album A good Path to follow… by The Hoboscopes

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 36 minutes 4 seconds, 47.2 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: The Ubuntu One Music Store, big GPL case settled, Ubuntu soon powered by Bing, Google sued over Buzz, Apple hates naked people and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:34 | Introduction

• We have a new, official microblogging account — follow us there to get all of the latest info in one place (more info on this decision)
• We are scrapping our planned Maemo/Android Shootout special since Maemo is now basically gone
• Fab ripped Pulse out of his Fedora 12 system and audio now works really well — now we just need to get this gPodder bug resolved (the gPodder devs are working on that)
• Come to OggCamp — thanks to our sponsors: Linux Format, The Open Learning Centre, The Linux Emporium, Opsview, Viglen and Bitfolk
• CodeWeavers Crossover sale (CrossOver Games for $29.96, Crossover Professional for $52.46)
• France is once again in the headlines with stupid and dangerous technology laws
• RIM is going WebKit with their Blackberry browser
• Beer of the Week: Carlsberg

0:19:54 | Releases & News

• Distro: Element 1.0
• Distro: Igelle 1.0.0
• Habari 0.6.4
• Gnumeric 1.10
• LTSP 5.2
• PlayOnLinux 3.7.3

  

• Fedora 13 will have 3D acceleration for the free Nvidia driver
• Ubuntu One Music Store, initial support code lands in Rhythmbox
• Google being sued and scolded over Buzz launch
• JMRI case settled — another important win for the GPL in the US
• Twitter’s open source page — why don’t you do it properly instead of just talking the talk, Twitter?
• Harald Welte is building the first open GSM stack
• Aava Mobile’s “fully open” handset

0:50:21 | Microwatch

• Microhoo search deal approved — Ubuntu soon powered by BING!
• Apple bans “skin” from App Store — it looks like Steve Jobs doesn’t like sex

0:57:16 | Spotlight

• Zattoo, a native Linux client to watch TV (in Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland & the UK) — sadly works only on Ubuntu
• Gowalla beta for Android, a check-in application

1:03:41 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Jason Carroll and Josef Esparza!
• Forums: NYBill reports: Apparently you need a Windows Live account to save your game progress in BioShock 2 on Windows???

• Dan Fish sent us this amazing video he made for promoting OggCamp
• Kevan V. told us about a Linux Outlaws bug on Launchpad
• Mac sent a handy tip about Google Chat adding people automatically and how to turn it off
• Andreas Gasser told us that OpenSUSE now contains support for trusted computing
• Ralph Zajac went to SCALE, met Shingledecker and took this amazing picture with him:

• B1ackcr0w & A.J. Griggs both sent us this disturbing sounding story about a school in the US using laptop webcams to spy on students in their own homes
• Other emails this week from Raphael Ong, x1101, Mathew Cucuzella, Paul Northrup, Serko, Kristopher Schwab, Evgeny Kuznetsov (who told us about ebook formats in Russia), Gerd Folberth, Quarter Pounder, Moriarty, Samir Faci, Steve Anderson, Wesley Kierstead, threexk, David Ellis and DarthSydwayZ (who listens to Linux Outlaws on a Zune)

• Events: OSSBarcamp 2010, April 17 in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 / SELF 2010, June 12-13 at the Marriott at Renaissance Park hotel in Spartanburg, SC / Flourish 2010, March 19-20 in Chicago

Song: She by TenPenny Joke from the album Ambush On All Sides — thanks to Niklas Grahn for the tip!

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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This week on the show: Moblin and Maemo now MeeGo, Google launches Buzz, the Olympics on Linux, no more freeze in Fedora Rawhide and more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:45 | Introduction

• Read Fab’s blog post on the release and production of the show and some changes we are making
• Bradley on the Android Linux kernel business and big corporations doing their own forks
• Microsoft says it ain’t Windows, it’s your batteries
• Linux Fund are launching an UK credit card — only a business card at first, consumer card is in negotiation with MBNA
• Dan’s Beer of the Week: Fosters

0:11:55 | Releases & News

• MINIX 3.1.6 — The Badger Dance
• Skolelinux 5.0
• Linux Mint 8 “Fluxbox” and “KDE64”
• NetBSD 5.0.2
• OpenOffice.org 3.2
• MontyMariaDB 5.1.42
• KDE 4.4.0
• openSUSE Build Service 1.7

• Nokia and Intel join Maemo and Moblin to “MeeGo”, MeeGo FAQ — Seriously… WTF!?
• Google launches Buzz — Meh?
• Miguel does it again: brings the Olympics single-handedly to Linux
• Adobe AIR coming to Android
• Fedora does away with feature freeze in Rawhide

0:50:58 | Microwatch

• Microsoft tries to save Windows Mobile with “Windows Phone 7 Series”
• Microsoft halts Windows Update distribution of security fix after blue-screen reports, may be caused by rootkit issue

0:57:46 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks a bunch to Blake Mattern, George Naylor and Jessie Berlin!
• Forums: Check out linuxoutlaws.com/flamewar

• Frank Bell doesn’t like Aldiko because he finds it “aggressively unfree”, he prefers FBreader
• In contrast stark, George Naylor loved it and even supported them with his money
• Daniel “Not Cloud Man” Devine sent us this cool beer backport patch for Episode 134:
  
• Les “Quarter” Pounder” says Blackpool LUG are looking for new members to join them every Saturday between 10am and 12pm
• Beeza wrote us with his thoughts concerning Fab’s comments on VB and Windows development
• Other emails this week from John Scheuvront, Juan Mares, scarffo, Andreas Marschke, Reine, Len Cooley, Nathan Neff, Stephen Parsons, Dan Dart, Rex Djere and Dan Scott
• The Ubuntu UK Podcast is back!

• Event: FOSScon in Rochester, NY on June 19

Song: Out Of My Mind by Cavashawn from their self-titled single

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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This week on Linux Outlaws: Company tries to patent Bradley Kuhn, Symbian now open source, Matt Asay becomes new Canonical COO, Windows 7 kills laptop batteries and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:01:35 | Introduction

• Episode 134 was late because Fab was taken down with some kind of killer cold, that’s also why he sounds so weird in this episode
• Thanks to gPodder, we were displayed quite prominently on Lifehacker, also check out the cool new, awesome my.gpodder.org
• Nexus One gets multitouch
• Archos posts full Linux distro for their Android tablet
• Another Ubuntu Week? — Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week
• We play our new OggCamp 10 Trailer — get OggCamp promotional goodness at oggcamp.org

0:16:45 | Releases & News

• VortexBox 1.1
• ArtistX 0.8
• Absolute Linux 13.0.8
• Toutou Linux 4.3.1 — Desmond Tutu
• eBox Platform 1.4
• Gibraltar Firewall 3.0
• Linux Mint 8 “KDE”
• Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0r2
• Rockbox 3.5
• Gpodder 2.2
• Vattery 0.6.5 by @jezra

• SourceForge turns off blanket blocking
• Symbian is now open source — finally…
• 501(c)3 Wordpress Foundation established
• Facebook’s “HipHop” PHP translator — WTF!?
• Matt Asay becomes new Canonical COO and then goes on to write an article that says the Canonical/Yahoo deal was for the good of market competition only
• Mozilla sponsors Gnome accessibility work while Oracle fires main Orca developer
• “Project Wonderland” is another Oracle casualty
• Company patents Bradley Kuhn?
• Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android pulled from kernel staging tree

0:55:42 | Microwatch

• Too dumb to blog: Microsoft people can’t handle the most basic blogging tools
• Windows 7 killing laptop batteries? (more on this topic)
• IE flaw turns your PC into a public file server — BING! and your PC is a file server!

1:01:17 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Sander Scheepens, Stephen Kellat, Pete Verschueren and S.T.E. de Bruin!
• Forums: Fedora Community Remix 12 released — Fab’s Fedora configuration (around 2.2 GB on disc) for size comparison

• St3v3 and Trent from Oz wrote to tell us about the movie industry and their case against iiNet down there which they lost
• Moriarty send us some positive information from the UK on a Lord who actually seems to “get” the Internet
• Buzzy Nielsen says he was presenting at the Online Northwest education technology conference about Linux desktops in libraries — here are his slides
• Peter Cannon sends us another one of his humorous emails asking if there are still any “Linux heroes” left
• Chris Bartak rants to us about NPR, Flash and HTML5
• Other emails this week from Jonathan Nadeau, Reine, Raphael Ong, Arend Krytenberg, ShadyCraig, Jonathan Groll, Evaldas, Thomas Penzl, Simon Vass, Alison Chaiken, Joe Foy, Kevin Lucas, Quarter Pounder, Paul W. B., Kevan V., Stuart Ward and Rob (who asks us about Suse Studio)

• Events: Ubuntu Global Jam, March 26 – 28

Song: If You’re Lost For Somewhere Else To Be by The Heavens from their self-titled debut album

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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This week’s show is brought to you by Bang Bros and Adobe, we also talk about the iTampon, Defective by Design, Ubuntu switching to Yahoo for search, Sourceforge blocking whole countries and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:02:08 | Introduction

• Fab thanks Jon Tomaszewski from Red Hat for sending him one of the iconic red fedoras
• Errata: MJJZF was thinking of Adam Williamson of Mandriva when talking about another community manager who has quit his job last week, we are glad to hear Max Spevak is still rocking it at Fedora because he’s a great guy — actually Williamson is at Red Hat now too, we hear
• We had 52,886 downloads in January on Libsyn alone, a new record — the new weekly record is 13,866 for last week
• The Fender Android phone is out now
• GCC to merge Go support
• Wikileaks needs donations
• Check out Dan’s monster N900 review

0:11:56 | Releases, MicroCrapplewatch & News

• SystemRescueCd 1.3.5
• PC/OS 10
• Ubuntu 8.04.4
• Banshee 1.5.3
• Firefox for Maemo 1.0
• Weave 1.0
• Tomboy 1.1.1
• SpamAssassin 3.3.0
• KDE Software Compilation 4.3.5

• Apple releases big ass iPod touch — Fab would prefer a Mini 5, Dan falls asleep
• Steve Jobs: “Ehh… Nobody reads more than 10 hours!!!”
• In response to this, Adobe gets into a pissing match about missing Flash and their main Flash evangelist posts a screenshot from Bang Bros on his blog, then pulls it
• Zonker says Defective by Design is a bad campaign
• Microsoft sues BitTorrent tracker — as far as we are aware, this is a first

• Ubuntu sells their default search option, switches to Yahoo — BING!!!
• Sourceforge now discriminates against users from certain countries that the US doesn’t like — Jon “Maddog” Hall’s take on this topic
• The FSFE receives the Theodor Heuss Medal

1:04:06 | Software Picks

• Desktop: Ground Control, a GUI interface to Bazaar and Launchpad integrated right into Nautilus — Jono’s blog post on Ground Control and other handy tools
• Android: Aldiko, an ebook reader for Android — free, $1.99 if you want to support them

1:09:41 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Tom Link, Mark Wright and Ryan Kohler
• Forums: Coordinate OggCamp travel

• We had a couple of emails on the SourceForge blockade from Pete Smith and Badry Darkoush from Syria — Chad Vader sketch
• Tom Link from Canada reports that he took his car for an oil change to Mr. Lube and was surprised to see that all their workstations run Ubuntu
• Dave Purse sent us information about his new distro Simplicity Linux which comes with Linux Outlaws pre-loaded in the podcatcher — good on ya, Dave!
• MJJZF says the Danish parliament, Folketinget, decided that ODF should be used as the only document format in state documents
• JonathanD pimps Freenode’s “7for7” campaign, go and donate because Freenode is ace!
• We also had emails from Ravel Lopez, Peter Cannon, Bo Kullmar, Joshua K., Jack, Mark Law, Reine, Sven Lankes, Kelly, Paul W.B., Quarter Pounder, Parth Lawate, Morgan, Russ Axford, Rich Brown, Mark, Rick and Vytenis

• Event: Fedora Activity Day (FAD), March 27/28 in Mönchengladbach

Song: Oppositional Defiance Disorder (live) by David Rovics from the album The Commons

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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This week on Linux Outlaws: Sun/Oracle deal approved, Zonker leaves Novell, Linux-powered roboboats to invade Wales, 17 year old flaw in Windows uncovered and much, much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:02:13 | Introduction

• Errata: We forgot to mention last week that mustard is free as in beer too
• Many people told us about the WRT54GL made out of Lego
• Check out the Fedora UK community planet
• Zeitgeist is now called Gnome Activity Journal
• Schneier: Google Hack exploited a secret US government backdoor
• Gimp 2.8 scheduled for release at the end of 2010 — it seems we have to wait quite a bit still for the single window mode
• Limited Verizon offer in the US: Buy a Pre, get a Pixi free!

0:13:16 | Releases & News

• Càtix 1.5 & 1.6
• Tiny Core Linux 2.8
• MoLinux 5.2
• Firefox 3.6
• Bespin 0.6 “Ash” — includes a complete code overhaul
• Nmap 5.20
• Bordeaux 2.0.0
• Wicd 1.7

• Judge cuts down Jammie Thomas fine by 97%
• EU Commission approves Oracle-Sun deal — Monty explodes
• Zonker leaves Novell
• Red Hat starts opensource.com — based on Drupal, too
• Google patents MapReduce
• YouTube videos now available in HTML5 — using H.264 which Firefox doesn’t support
• Linux iz in ur guitar
• Linux-powered roboboat to research W(h)ales
• Maemo/Android dual-boot on N900

0:45:16 | Microwatch

• Google engineer finds 17 year old flaw in nearly all versions of Windows — of course Microsoft has known for ages, but hasn’t fixed it
• French Government also warns against using Internet Explorer
• Ubuntu One is being ported to Windows

0:59:08 | Quick Tip

• Sync your Android phone with Banshee (version 1.5.2 for the Droid/Milestone)

1:05:53 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Andy C., Andrew Gee, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér, Brad Cleaver, Andre Hugo, KevanV, Mark Gardner and John Scheuvront!
• Forums: Visit #fuckthecoc on Freenode

• Ben just had an operation to have his wisdom teeth removed and our podcast helped him through the pain — cool!
• Moriarty, Bill Boulton and nipeng all sent us information on the Google/China hack
• Kelvin Gardiner tells us about the Ubuntu derivative distro he’s working on, it is aimed at people working on electronics
• Matt says sign the new petition against software patents in Europe — we agree!
• We also had emails from Rex Djere, B1ackcr0w, Reine, Beeza, Michael Spannbauer, Nat Friedman from Hacker Medley, Nick Clark, Robert Murphy, Tom D., Anthony M. Scotti, Joakim Hovlandsvåg, Quarter Pounder, St3v3 and KevanV

• Events: Debian-NYC Bug Squashing Party will be held on the weekend January 29 - 31 at the drop.io offices, 68 Jay Street in Brooklyn / OggCamp travel and hotel info is now on the website

Song: Give A Praise from the album Remember Senegal by Afreekanxpress

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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This week, the Outlaws bring you a lot of Google/China hacking stories, a review of the Mustard microblogging client for Android, Microsoft DDoSing Perl hackers, Google hiring Ted Ts’o and the Hawkman is in the house too…

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0:01:42 | Introduction

• Check out this nice review of the show by Andrew Currie
• Better than Bono: REM speaks out for net neutrality
• Very nice looking new Motorola Android phone
• M$ did pull Word from their distribution channels after all
• mintMenu ported to Fedora
• Very funny: Linus rants on embroidery machines
• Booze of the Week: Ramrod’s amazing moonshine Tsipouro

0:15:52 | Releases & News

• BackTrack 4
• SimplyMEPIS 8.0.15 — check out Warren Woodford’s great hair!
• PelicanHPC 2.0
• Frenzy 1.2
• Pardus Linux 2009.1
• Bangarang 1.0

• Mozilla changes release and development process
• Facebook becomes Apache Software Foundation sponsor
• Google is upgrading to Ext4 and hires Ted Ts’o
• Linux Foundation: Linux job market has grown by 80%
• BerliOS hacked
• Dan’s report of his N900 troubles
• Google to pull out of China in aftermath of hacking attacks?

0:44:33 | Microwatch

• German BSI advises citizens not to use Internet Explorer
• IE flaw exploited in Chinese attacks on Google
• Microsoft bots perform denial of service on Perl Testers

0:51:43 | Android App Pick

• Mustard — @macno’s amazing identi.ca client

0:57:11 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Henning Beyer, Craig Horrocks and Matt!
• Forums: How did you discover Linux?

• Regular correspondent Les “Quarter” Pounder writes to tell us of a school in Lancashire, UK who used Moodle to set up a virtual classroom during the recent snow disruption — Pot Noodle
• We had nice emails from Scarffo & Aethelberga to say how much they enjoy the show
• Sidney Skinner tells us more about the FreeNAS kernel situation
• Stuart sends us a link from Groklaw about an email from Bill Gates regarding Linux and ACPI extensions from back in 1999
• Raphael Ong sent us a poem about Linux he wrote for his literature homework
• Crispin tells us that you can buy the Debian wine from last episode and support the distro in the process
• Jonathan Nadeau introduces us to his company Frostbite Systems that makes Linux-based computers including some very cool (pun intended) fully pre-configured machines for blind users
• Folding@Home: Join Team TLLTS and help us take over!
• Peter Noack likes the show and says he’s a medicine student interning in the OR and asked some CPB technicians about Windows XP on the machines, as referenced in Episode 130, and luckily XP isn’t used in critical applications
• We had other emails this week from JonTheNiceGuy, Erik Lee, Kevin Lucas, Bill Boulton, Alistair Munro, Big Jim, spartan7 and David Ellis
  
  
• Event: Klaatu’s Linux Multimedia Sprint, January 26 from 14:00 - 06:00 EST in #media on irc.binrev.net

Song: Rock Out With Your Hawk Out by MC Hawking

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.